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 "We are focusing on the health of our family, and so we will
be, we will be stronger when we come out of this because that's
what we're determined to do as a family," Jolie told ABC
Television's "Good Morning America" in an interview.
Jolie, in some of her first comments on the divorce from Pitt,
was asked if she still thought of the actor as the "wonderful
father" she had called him several years ago.
"Of course," she replied. "We will always be a family, always."
Jolie and Pitt's surprise split last September after more than
10 years together turned bitter after fights over custody of
their six children and accusations of child abuse against Pitt
involving one of the children after the "Moneyball" star lost
his temper.
Pitt has since been cleared of any wrongdoing but Jolie has
primary custody of their children pending a final settlement of
the divorce.
Jolie, in Cambodia to promote her new movie "First They Killed
My Father," told the BBC in an interview at the weekend that the
split with Pitt has been difficult.
"Many people find themselves in this situation. My whole family
have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children,
our children," she said.
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All six of the children flew to Cambodia for Saturday's world
premiere of "First They Killed My Father," which is a real life
account of the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s in which more than
one million people died of starvation, exhaustion, disease or in
mass executions.
Jolie, who adopted her eldest child Maddox, now 15, from Cambodia,
directed the film and said she made it to better understand the
recent history of Cambodia.
"Forty years ago this war affected every single individual here, and
I wanted to understand myself. I don't know much of my son's
(Maddox) birth parents, but I believe they would've gone through
this war. I wanted to understand him and his culture in a deeper
way, and I wanted to bring this story to this country in this
country's language," she said.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Richard Chang)
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